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Transport

Assets that move people and goods around the world: strategic roads, the rail network, airports and ports, the rolling stock running on the rail system, and the charging networks powering electric vehicles.

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Sub-sectors

Transport assets are defined by where the demand risk sits. At one end are availability-based assets, where a government or counterparty pays for the asset to be open and maintained regardless of use; at the other are merchant, demand-exposed assets whose revenue rises and falls with traffic, passengers or throughput, with regulated and concession models in between.

That single distinction drives everything: the cost of capital, the gearing the asset can carry, and the return a buyer should demand. The references below run from toll roads and rail to airports, ports and the charging networks powering the shift to electric vehicles.